{"id":1182,"date":"2026-06-18T04:16:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2026-06-18T04:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:16:33","slug":"tessa-janecke-is-selected-third-overall-by-las-vegas-penn-state-well-represented-in-the-pwhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Tessa Janecke is selected third overall by Las Vegas; Penn State well-represented in the PWHL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tessa Janecke\u2019s year has had no shortage of big moments, from winning gold with the United States women\u2019s hockey team at the Winter Olympics in Milan, to playing in the Frozen Four on home ice at State College. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1180\">A Chesco couple cared more for drugs than their young son, judge says, before sending them to prison for decades<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday night she added another, as Las Vegas of the Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League selected Janecke with the third pick of the PWHL Draft. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The new expansion team in Las Vegas is the fourth team to be announced as part of the league\u2019s second round of expansions for the 2026-27 season, taking the league from eight teams to 12. Detroit, Hamilton, and San Jose are the other three. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>After helping lead Penn State to its first women\u2019s hockey Frozen Four appearance, Janecke says she knows what it\u2019s like to help build a program and is prepared to do the same in Vegas. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMe and my class have kind of built that place into what it is today and hopefully into what it continues to be and I\u2019m really excited to be able to do that with Las Vegas as well,\u201d Janecke said. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Janecke added: \u201cIt takes so much hard work and adversity even if you\u2019re not winning games to still make those around you feel like they belong and feel that sense of community in the team.\u201d <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>As Penn State\u2019s leading goal scorer this season with 26 goals, the 5-foot-8 forward also led the team in points (48), and finished with 201 career points, the most ever for a Penn State hockey player.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>She also became the first Penn State athlete to win a Winter Olympic gold medal after competing in Milan this winter, putting up five assists in the United States\u2019 seven games. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Janecke also played for Team USA in the 2025 IIHF World Championship where she scored the golden goal.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The Orangeville, Ill. native was named to the Atlantic Hockey America conference first-team four times, and won three straight AHA Player and Forward of the year awards, the second woman in the conference to achieve that feat. She also became the first ever Penn State women\u2019s player to be a top-three finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, given to the top women\u2019s college player. She was a top-10 finalist the previous two seasons. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Janecke said she plans to carry her experience and lessons from Penn State to the next level.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1178\">Trea Turner gets \u2018on a good track\u2019 with three hits in return to the Phillies lineup<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s an edge to Penn State that people don\u2019t always realize. They kind of fly under the radar,\u201d Janecke said. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s a good thing and a bad thing, but I think I\u2019m going to take that 200-foot play that I\u2019ve developed at Penn State and bring that to Las Vegas.\u201d <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Penn State representation and a local connection<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Wynnewood\u2019s Grace Dwyer, a Harriton High graduate, was also drafted in the first round, 10th overall to the Boston Fleet.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The blueliner had 76 points (18 goals, 58 assists) during her four-year career at Cornell. She was named to the All-Ivy first-team this season. She also previously played for the Philadelphia Junior Flyers, along with Penn State\u2019s Leah Stecker, who went 27th overall to Boston in the third round. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Stecker, one of several Nittany Lions to be drafted, was a four-year contributor, playing in all of Penn State\u2019s games over the last three seasons.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The Randolph, N.J. native finished her career with 57 points (12 goals, 45 assists), but was most productive in the defensive zone, recording 83 blocks in her career.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Maddy Christian, an Elk River, Minn. native, was also drafted in the third round to her hometown team, the Minnesota Frost. She had a 84 total points (46 goals, 38 assists) in four seasons at Penn State.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Goalie Katie DeSa was drafted with the first pick of the fourth round to the Vancouver Goldeneyes after finishing her career with the most shutouts in program history (25), earned back-to-back AHA Goaltender of the Year honors, and finished with a .932 save percentage during her collegiate career. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Forward Katelyn Roberts was taken 43rd overall in the fourth round by the New York Sirens. She scored a career-best 16 goals during her senior season. She also set a program record for most single-season game-winning goals (7), which was tied for the second-most nationally. She is one of six athletes in the program\u2019s history to record 100 or more career points. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In the fifth round, Kendall Butze joined Janecke after she was selected by Las Vegas. Butze was named the AHA\u2019s Best Defensemen in back-to-back seasons and is Penn State\u2019s all-time leader in points by a defenseman (94).<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1176\">Delaware County detected measles in wastewater samples, health officials say<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janecke, who played for Team USA&#8217;s gold medal team in the Winter Olympics, is hoping to bring the same success she achieved at Penn State to Las Vegas, one of four expansion teams joining the PWHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-sports","category-penn-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tessa Janecke is selected third overall by Las Vegas; 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